Sohail E Jaffer is a Managing Director of Premium Select Lux SA, an asset management subsidiary of the FWU Group. The company is based in Luxembourg and specialises in Multimanager and Quant based investments. He is also a Partner and the Head of International Sales and Distribution for ‘white label’ bancassurance, bancatakaful and asset management services within the FWU Group, an independent financial services group headquartered in Munich. The Group’s main activities include asset management, bancassurance and individual pension plans. He successfully concluded several major bank distribution deals. The Group’s branch network includes Luxembourg, Italy, UAE and Malaysia.
Mr Jaffer is currently a Council member of the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA). He also served as Chairman of the Association for two consecutive terms for the period 1997 to 2000. He has written extensively on alternative investments, including editing Alternative Investment Strategies, Funds of Hedge Funds: For Professional Investors and Managers, Hedge Funds: Crossing the Institutional Frontier and contributing a chapter each to Evaluating and Implementing Hedge Fund Strategies (third edition), and The New Generation of Risk Management for Hedge Funds and Private Equity Investments all published by Euromoney books. He recently also edited the new Euromoney publication on Multi-manager Funds: Long-only strategies for Managers and Investors and three publications on Islamic Asset Management, Islamic Retail Banking and Finance and Islamic Insurance (Takaful).
Sohail is also a member of ALFI’s Asset Management Advisory Committee and of ALFI’s Hedge Fund Committee. ALFI is the Association of the Luxembourg Funds Industry.